Unloved - Polychrome (Heavenly Recordings)

 

Title: Polychrome

Artist: Unloved

Label: Heavenly Recordings

Cat Number: Dunno

Genre: Chugtastic

1: Polychrome

2: Thrill Me

3: Polychrome (Raw Silk Remix)

4: Thrill Me (Justin Robertson’s Temple Of Wonders Remix)

As a foretaste of the eponymously titled long player, this pair give a very good account of themselves. Both tracks are dominated by echoing vocals that deadpan themselves through a Spectoresque wall of psychedelic sound. Tension builds and subsides, pushing itself to breaking point. ‘Polychrome’ is a shuffle underpinned by a bass last seen in the care of Peter Hook, while ‘Thrill Me’ is looser and seems to have a life of its own. The voices are all important and really carry both tunes along. Mad, implicit late sixties Californian vibe as standard. The Raw Silk Remix of Polychrome takes the track off in a trance direction, neatly sidestepping any cheese. It’s a remix that manages to sound original while not abandoning its source material. Justin Robertson fleshes things out for his remix, taking a sonic feather duster to the echo chamber of the original and bringing the profile of the vocals into sharp relief against more emphatic dub stylings.